BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support

2009-06-18 05:14:43
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:09:04 +1000
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Alex wrote:
> 
> Alex wrote:
>> Alex wrote:
>>> Anyway, let me thank you a lot, as it work great with backuppc :D
>>>
>>> This helped me a lot, the two binaries are usable as is on each system :
>>> http://www.consolejunky.net/cwrsync-vss/
>>>
>>> Tested it on XP / Vista w/o problem using backuppc. Been able to save my 
>>> "in use" pst files.
>>>
>>> Great.
>>
>> Back again, i've got a bug using the vss version, when i restart de service, 
>> the pid logfile is not erased.
>> When the computer reboot, the rsync service won't start anymore. The log 
>> file says "failed to create pid file rsyncd.pid: file exists (17)" wich was 
>> not happening with the original version.
>>
>> I'll try to check if there's an option about this, but i think there's 
>> something wrong (maybe service doesn't stop properly, but this did not 
>> append before...)
> 
> 
> Ok, sorry for the noise, but i hope this will help others. Since i've just 
> replaced the old rsync.exe by the provided one, i kept the rsyncd.conf file.
> 
> So, i removed the "pid file = rsyncd.pid" from the config file, and it's now 
> working like a charm.
> Maybe this version has the pid file stored somewhere else, anyway, putting 
> this option in comment (adding # before) fixed the problem. 
> 
> Now rsync start w/o problem on each reboot (apply to xp and vista versions).

I found that if you manually delete the pid file, then it should work
fine. Perhaps this version doesn't know how to delete the pid file on
exit, or perhaps it was not exiting cleanly.

Regards,
Adam
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